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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Pakistan Army on the Gold Standard.

Just standard operating procedures for the UN and Pakistan? Probably. Pakistan sure seems to have a hard time finding OBL in Whatchacallitstan and I am sure OBL has plenty of the gold to pass around. UN troops are notoriously second rate. I guess the rest of the story is that in Iraq, Africa and elsewhere the only real gold standard for use of force is the US Military.

UN troops traded guns for gold with militias, says reportBy David Usborne in New York IndependentPublished: 24 May 2007

Scandal is engulfing the United Nations once again after allegations that peacekeepers stationed in Congo traded guns for gold with militia groups that they were meant to be disarming. Meanwhile, a trial got under way in New York of a former UN official accused of taking bribes.

The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said in a statement that an investigation into the guns-for-gold claims had begun and was continuing, adding that it had a "zero-tolerance policy for misconduct and will remain vigilant in preventing egregious and unacceptable behaviour".

At the heart of the investigation are allegations that, in 2005, Pakistani soldiers sent by the UN to restore peace in Ituri province around the north-eastern mining town of Mongbwalu began returning guns to militia groups, receiving gold in exchange.

Witnesses confirmed the existence of the trade to the BBC. One Congolese officer "repeatedly saw militia who had been disarmed one day but the next day would become rearmed again. The information he could obtain was always the same, that it would be the Pakistani battalion giving arms back to the militia."

Human Rights Watch said it had its own information on the case which it had passed to the UN. "Pakistani officers were involved in illegal smuggling of between $2m-$5m in gold out of Ituri. We have very solid information on this," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, a researcher with the group.

The Congo force of almost 18,000 soldiers is the largest UN deployment in the world. It has been credited with helping the country's transition to a fragile democracy after a vicious civil war from 1998 to 2003 that killed as many as four million people and drew in forces from several neighbouring countries.

The UN has been accused of burying the initial findings of the investigation to avoid embarrassing Pakistan, the largest peacekeeping troop contributor. The UN's special representative in the DRC, William Swing, emphatically denied the guns-for-gold claims.

For those of you who believe I might only unleash my tongue on fellow bloggers from time to time here is the letter I emailed to Senator Mel Martinez (R) FL today:

For what it's worth....

Senor Senator Martinez,

I know you are a supported of allowing your ancestry free illegal passes to the USA, uncontrolled borders and further permitting the dilution of US citizenship. I however am not.

Closing ranks with Senator Kennedy is not a good idea. Going against the overwhelming number of citizens who are against your position is NOT a smart political move.

Most of us in our 60's have heard all the pablum regurgitate from politicians who attempt to cover their opprobrium by saying, "We are doing this for the good of the country".

Well Senator, that is crap, pure crap in this case.You support building the fence that has been authorized and funded first, but that Mr. Chertoff just yesterday admitted not a mile of which has been built and then come back to the amnesty question in later years. Spend the wall building time to round up the illegals and deport them. That is your responsibility , not supporting laws that ex post facto erase felonies.

While the wall is being constructed I would recommend that you review your oath of office. Having 12-20 million illegals in this country, aided in their efforts to cross our borders by the Mexican government constitutes an act of war. If you do not recognize this as such then you should resign your office for aiding and abetting an offensive action against the United States. Perhaps a grass roots recall petition is in order. I do believe it would be no problem gaining the signatures required to accomplish this.

I would recommend you recalibrate your thinking on this issue and do the correct thing. Build the wall and get control of our borders first. Then deport the illegals. They will only bastardize and dilute the votes of those American citizens who follow the laws and support this country. You clearly are not doing the right thing and the opprobrium attaching itself to your name will not wash off.

As a final note should you support this bill I will do everything legal to defeat you at the polls. I am not without influence in my county having been a member of the Republican Executive Committee and past President of the Republican Men's Club.

signed with my name

So bloggers, if you feel the need, just give'em a bit of hell. remember bloggers these people are our servants not our masters. Short of civil war there are a great many tools at our disposal to bring pressure on those who would destroy this country.

BTW, does anybody know or heard exactly how we allowed 15-20 million illegals to get into the country in the first place?

Pakistani UN troops have always excelled whenever called upon, inlcuding providing cover to Western Un troops. Some Pakistani UN soldiers on such a mission were massacred while providing cover to US troops in Mogadisho, Somalia. Besides, such allegations as you have mentioned have been levelled against almost all UN troops from the so-called Third-World countries and each time have been proven to be baseless.

And by the way, the image that you've used is that of a Bangladeshi Army officer and not a Pakistani army officer. That's why he has a Bangladesh flag on his arm.

Pakistan has lost many soldiers for the world peace. And such news are just propaganda. They always say they have prove but they never show any. by the way there are also cases against most modern army like America of rape in iraq. Why don't any reporter report that.

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